IPTV

The Alliance For Creativity and Entertainment and the Coalition Against Piracy have teamed up to shut down an illicit IPTV operation in Australia. The company allegedly sold devices bundled with a 12-month subscription to pirated movies, TV shows, and sports but under pressure, agreed to close down. Instead of companies like the MPAA, Amazon, Netflix, […]

A man in the in the city of Hartlepool in the UK, who sold illegal Internet TV boxes that allowed pubs and clubs to screen pay-to-view TV free of charge has received a suspended prison sentence and been ordered to pay £250,000 (€289,000). Malcolm Mayes received a ten-month prison sentence suspended for one year when […]

Following the first legal case involving a supplier of IPTV systems which enable viewers to watch unauthorised content, a man from the East Midlands city of Nottingham has been jailed. Terry O’Reilly was sentenced to four years in prison. A second supplier who worked with O’Reilly, Will O’Leary, pleaded guilty and received a two-year suspended […]

Bangladesh, which has only recently permitted DTH satellite operator RealVu to start, has now placed a ban on the country’s IPTV and VoD service providers. The local regulator (Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, BTRC) already has something of a reactionary reputation. In 2013 it slapped a similar ‘ban’ on online blogging, as well as limited competition […]

The number of homes paying for IPTV in Western Europe overtook pay satellite TV ones in 2015. According the Digital TV Western Europe Forecasts report, IPTV subscriptions will climb by nearly 7 million (up by 27 per cent) between 2015 and 2021. IPTV revenues will reach $5.77 billion in 2021 – up by $1.2 billion. […]

BT has launched the full version of BBC iPlayer on its IPTV service BT Vision, enabling users to watch hundreds of hours of on-demand TV. The launch of iPlayer, first announced last November, replaces the selection of BBC programmes previously available on BT Vision’s TV Replay platform. A phased implementation of iPlayer on BT Vision […]

Ofcom has today announced that it will not launch an investigation into YouView, despite receiving numerous complaints about the IPTV joint venture. In a statement, the media regulator said that fears about YouView’s potential harm to market competition would be offset by its “benefits to viewers and consumers”. However, Ofcom also noted that the IPTV […]

The Digital TV Group has expressed concern that IPTV joint venture Project Canvas is failing to properly engage with all industry stakeholders to create a truly open standard. In its final submission to a BBC Trust consultation, seen by The Guardian, the trade body pointed to “widespread concern” in the industry that key set top […]